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Diabetes (Type 2)

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Human: Ginger improves glycemic indices in patients with diabetes. Ginger has a beneficial effect on diabetes. It is an aldose reductase inhibitor, which may contribute to the protection against diabetic complications. Ginger supplementation is an effective treatment for diabetes. Ginger is useful for people with insulin resistance and diabetes. It has significant beneficial effects on cholesterol in diabetic patients.
Animal: Ginger has anti-diabetic activity. It enhances insulin synthesis and has high antioxidant activity. It has a neuroprotective effect. It has a protective effect against dyslipidemia in diabetic rats. Ginger has a protective effect against kidney damage associated with diabetes. It has anti-diabetic and lipid lowering properties. It has a beneficial effect on fructose induced hyperlipidemia and hyperinsulinemia. It has a beneficial effect on insulin resistance associated with fructose comsumption. Ginger has a preventative and therapeutic effect in diabetes and its complications.

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Diabetes (Type 2)

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Human: Turmeric has a beneficial effect on diabetic blood vessel disease. It causes a reduction of atherogenic risk in patients with diabetes. It could be an adjuvant to diabetes medication (metformin) treatment because it has a beneficial effect on blood glucose, oxidative stress and inflammation. It has a preventative effect on diabetes.
Animal: It suppresses an increase in blood glucose levels in diabetic mice. It improves insulin resistance in skeletal muscle. It reduces diabetic nerve problems. It reduces kidney lesions associated with diabetes. It reduces diabetic encephalopathy. It reduces retinal stress and inflammation in diabetes. It reduces diabetic nerve pain. It enhances wound healing in diabetic rats. It has a protective effect against hyperlipidemia and insulin resistance in high-fat fed hamsters. It has been demonstrated to prevent or reduce diabetes and its complications. It has lipid lowering properties in diabetic rats. It holds promise to prevent or treat central nervous system complications in diabetes. It improves insulin resistance in skeletal muscle. It improves the metabolic status in diabetic conditions. It is a potential glucose lowering agent and antioxidant in diabetic mice. It may have a preventive role in the the treatment of diabetic retinopathy. It has anti-diabetic actions.

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Diabetes (Type 2)

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Human: Chia consumption results in a reduction in post-meal glucose excursion and prolongation of satiety. Chia reduces cardiovascular risk factors while maintaining good glycemic and lipid control in people with well controlled type 2 diabetes.
Animal: Chia seeds improve body fat levels and normalize high triglycerides and insulin resistance.

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Diabetes (Type 2)

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Human: Flax seeds have therapeutic value in diabetes. It may reduce C-reactive protein in diabetics. It appears to have potential anti-diabetic properties.
Animal: Flax seeds reduce proteinuria and reduces kidney problems in an animal model of diabetes.

Diabetes (Type 2)

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Human: Frequent nut and peanut butter consumption is associated with a significantly lower cardiovascular risk in women with diabetes.
Animal: It improves glutathione and HDL cholesterol levels in experimental diabetes. It may have a beneficial effect against clotting associated cardiovascular events in diabetes.

Diabetes (Type 2)

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Human: It improves insulin sensitivity in all patients tested.
Animal: It has anti-cataract effects on rats with diabetes. It improves insulin sensitivity and glucose uptake in the liver in diabetic rats. It has the ability to improve fructose induced insulin sensitivity.

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Diabetes (Type 2)

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Human: Obese diabetic patients who received a native banana starch lost weight and exhibited reduced insulin levels. Daily consumption of banana is harmless in diabetic and high cholesterol patients and marginally beneficial for high cholesterol.
Animal: It has lipid lowering and antioxidant activity in diabetic rats. Banana has antioxidant and blood sugar lowering effects.

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Diabetes (Type 2)

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Animal: Pomegranate improves learning and memory impaired by diabetes. It has the ability to reduce hyperglycemia by inhibiting oxidative stress induced damage to the pancreas. It has some sugar regulating properties. It reduces blood pressure in diabetic rats by inhibiting angiotensin converting enzyme activity.
In Vitro: Pomegranate may offer an attractive dietary strategy for the prevention and treatment of AGE-related diseases such as diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease.

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Diabetes (Type 2)

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Animal: Watermelon significantly ameliorates the metabolic syndrome in diabetic fatty rats. It may have an ameliorative effect on artery clogging diet induced dyslipidemia, hypothyroidism and hyperglycemia in rats.

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Overview:

Diabetes is a metabolic disease in which the body’s inability to produce any or enough insulin causes elevated levels of glucose in the blood. Type 2 Diabetes is common even though it is largely preventable in the greatest percentage of cases.

How to use this page:

This page is a roadmap for you to easily identify the right foods to eat and how to make a smoothie with the right foods for your condition.

The foods below are listed on the government research website called Pubmed. We suggest that you click on some of these foods and see the actual research. You will see why your doctor likely wants you to consume these foods.

Immediately below the recommended foods are smoothie recipes that have the most of these recommended foods included. Most doctors will want you to consume one of the smoothies listed on this page for either breakfast or lunch each day.

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OUR SCORING SYSTEM

For each health protocol, we assigned a score to each recipe and each ingredient. This helps you better understand the correlation that medical research is suggesting between foods and benefits to various health conditions. Our scoring system is based on REAL RESEARCH published on pubmed.gov. This is a website that curates over 25 million different biomedical journals.

How Our Scoring System Works

For each health goal, we assigned a score to each recipe and each ingredient. This helps you better understand the correlation that medical research is suggesting between foods and benefits to various health goals. Our scoring system is based on REAL RESEARCH published on pubmed.gov. This is a website that curates over 25 million different biomedical journals.